Poverty alleviation and development have achieved fruitful results.
In Jurong, Jiangsu Province, there is a saying widely circulated in the hearts of more than 400,000 farmers: "If you want to get rich, find Yafu, and you will get rich if you find Yafu." Rooted in agriculture for decades, Zhao Yafu kept his promise: show it to farmers, lead them to do so, help them sell it and make them rich. For decades, he took the technical backbone of Jurong agricultural front and personally trained a large number of rich experts and models. The 20 strawberry seedlings he brought back from Japan have now made Jurong "the hometown of strawberries in China".
In addition to strawberries, there are grapes, figs and organic rice ... Zhao Yafu's successful promotion always "lights up a few lights and illuminates a large area". For more than 20 years, agricultural science and technology projects in Zhao Yafu have become rich wherever they go: 1986, Zhao Yafu came to Laomaoshan area with strawberries, so the first batch of buildings in Laomaoshan area were erected, which farmers affectionately called "strawberry building"; 1989, Zhao Yafu came to Spring City with Kyoho grapes, so there were more than 3,000 mu of grapes in the villages and towns around Dingzhuang in Spring City, benefiting 1000 farmers. In 2006, Zhao Yafu came to Daizhuang with organic agricultural products. As a result, this village was once the poorest in Jurong. In one year, the average income of more than 200 pure farmers reached more than 5,000 yuan, and in 2008 it reached 8,000 yuan. This poor village has become a "well-off village" ...
In the past 20 years, Zhao Yafu and his colleagues have taught nearly 100 agricultural scientific research achievements to farmers, planted 6.5438+0.8 million mu of seasonal fruits in hilly and mountainous areas, and brought farmers comprehensive income of nearly 3 billion yuan.
"There is Yuan Longping in the north and Zhao Yafu in the south, one with high yield and one with high efficiency." (Hong Kong Business Daily) Over the past 20 years, Zhao Yafu has led local farmers to embark on an efficient agricultural road suitable for farmers in hilly and mountainous areas to get rich.
Rooted in the countryside, where there is a will, there is a way.
From 65438 to 0958, Zhao Yafu, who was about to graduate from Changzhou Middle School, confidently applied for the journalism major of Fudan University. It happened that fate played tricks on people. Due to the change of the political situation and the occlusion of information at that time, Zhao Yafu lost the opportunity to be a reporter and finally chose Yixing Agriculture and Forestry College.
Yixing Agriculture and Forestry College was established to develop agriculture in hilly areas of Jiangsu, but at this time, Zhao Yafu did not know that he would become a representative figure of agricultural development in hilly areas of Jiangsu in 40 years.
Zhao Yafu, the son of a farmer, was born in a farmhouse and took agriculture as his occupation. He is familiar with farmers' thoughts, habits, limitations and methods of dealing with farmers.
As a student, Zhao Yafu had a working concept of eating, living and working with farmers, which has continued to this day, even during the ten-year "Cultural Revolution".
During the "Cultural Revolution", everyone else went to "make a revolution". However, Zhao Yafu was pregnant with two baked wheat cakes and ran to the countryside before dawn. I once ran more than 20 miles to check the growth of crops with farmers. Before the Cultural Revolution, Zhao Yafu was only an unknown agronomist in Zhenjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. After the "Cultural Revolution", he became a famous agricultural expert.
However, it is not only his simple feelings for farmers that prompted Zhao Yafu to take root in the field all his life, but his rational thinking on the present situation of agriculture, countryside and farmers in China and his determination to change the present situation.
1982, Zhao Yafu and others were organized to study rice cultivation techniques in Japan, which was his first contact with modern agriculture since 196 1 engaged in agricultural work.
From then on, he combined the working idea of "eating, living and working with farmers" in the first 20 years with the modern agricultural technology introduced from Japan, and embarked on a road of agricultural technology popularization in line with China's national conditions, which changed the face of agriculture, farmers and rural areas in hilly areas.
A friend who is very familiar with Zhao Yafu commented that as an agricultural scientist, Zhao Yafu showed a sense of being ahead of the times. After studying in Japan, Zhao Yafu saw that the natural geographical conditions for developing agriculture in Japan were similar to those in the hilly areas of Zhenjiang. He brought the idea of Japanese agriculture back to Zhenjiang and applied it in Zhenjiang.
Zhao Yafu has the spirit of being diligent in practice, pragmatic and innovative. Zhao Yafu is a down-to-earth person. He combines "doing" with "knowing" very well. He studied hard in Japan and other advanced agricultural countries, and promoted it bit by bit in Laomaoshan area, succeeding one by one. Take the introduction of strawberries as an example. After the strawberry seedlings were brought back, Zhao Yafu immediately led the personnel of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to put them into trial planting. The next year, open-air strawberries were successful in clay. After that, I went to Japan 18 times, and took agricultural technicians and topics to study and inspect in the fields of Japan; With five large farmers, I had face-to-face communication with Japanese farmers and broadened my horizons. Usually keep close contact with Japanese friends, and constantly learn and apply advanced agricultural management technology in Japan. A number of high-tech agricultural achievements have taken root and blossomed in Jurong hilly area: cold storage seedling raising technology has made strawberries go on the market more than one month in advance; In winter, the greenhouse is pollinated by bees, and the yield per mu increases10%-20%; The compound planting and breeding mode changed the fertilization mode; Strawberry and rice rotation can improve the soil. ...
Zhao Yafu has a strong sense of market economy and pays attention to the road of efficient agriculture, which is very suitable for farmers to increase their income. Whether it is strawberry planting or vineyard construction, whether it is advocating organic agricultural circle or promoting organic rice planting, he is aiming at the market to promote agricultural technology and focus on increasing farmers' income.
"Where there is a will, there is a way." Although Zhao Yafu didn't come from a prestigious school or have a proud academic background, he always walked at the forefront of agricultural science and technology with his ideals and beliefs, and "wrote" academic research papers in a broad field.
indifferent to fame and wealth
As a scholar who returned from studying abroad in the early 1980s, as the creator of agricultural wealth and the guide for farmers to get rich, Zhao Yafu could have easily become a rich man by virtue of the projects he introduced and the value he created, but he gave up all this and devoted his life to the agricultural development in Laomaoshan area, which is in sharp contrast with the impetuous trend of pursuing fame and fortune in academic circles. In Jurong and Zhenjiang, Zhao Yafu is a famous "God of Wealth", but he has always maintained a cool and sober attitude towards the word "wealth" for many years.
Facts speak plainer than words. Zhao Yafu has been engaged in agricultural science and technology for 48 years and served as the leader of the Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress for more than 20 years. He presided over or handled tens of millions of project funds, but he never regarded them as resources for "equal exchange" by individuals, nor did he make "fanfan" for himself or small groups.
Zhao Yafu's son Zhao Xiaorong still clearly remembers that he tried to persuade his father to start a company with him after retirement: "I will register a company, contract land for agriculture in rural areas, and realize your agricultural ideal." Zhao Xiaorong believes that his father has many dreams in modern agricultural management mode, but many of them are difficult to realize, because farmers' cultural quality is not high and their wealth is not large. His father's cooperation with farmers in running agriculture is certainly not as fast as his own.
Zhao Yafu finally didn't accept his son's advice. Because his dream is to make farmers rich through agriculture, his pursuit cannot be separated from farmers. After that, Zhao Xiaorong never thought about cooperating with his father. "My father never used his social relations in Zhenjiang to serve my career."
On June 20th, 2008, Luo Zhijun, then Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Acting Governor, read out the decision of the provincial government on awarding Comrade Zhao Yafu the honorary title of Jiangsu Province Model of Promoting Agriculture through Science and Technology. The decision points out that Comrade Zhao Yafu has been serving farmers wholeheartedly for 46 years, taking root in rural areas, engaging in agricultural science and technology popularization, and writing his papers and achievements on the earth, which has won the praise of farmers for "getting rich and finding husbands". He actively participated in the popularization and application of agricultural science and technology, trained rural experts and skilled personnel to become rich, innovated the production and marketing mode of agricultural products, developed pollution-free agricultural products and green food, established agricultural science and technology demonstration parks, explored new ways of comprehensive agricultural development in hilly and mountainous areas, and made outstanding contributions to promoting agriculture through science and technology, developing modern agriculture and increasing farmers' income with his intelligence and hard work. He is an outstanding representative of agricultural science and technology workers in the new period and a model for the study of agricultural science and technology fronts in the whole province.
"Take the land as a partner and the farmers as relatives, write the papers in the fields of hope, and put the income into the pockets of farmers. Over the past 46 years, we have insisted on grass-roots agricultural technology promotion, field training and setting an example, with no intention of returning. The golden key for farmers to get rich in mountainous areas is regarded as the golden key in their hearts by farmers. " This is Zhao Yafu's acceptance speech when he was awarded "Top Ten People in Agriculture, Countryside and Farmers" by CCTV in 2007.
Qingshan is still there, and people are old. Today, Zhao Yafu, who has officially gone through retirement formalities and is nearly old, is still busy all over the country. For example, Jiangsu supports the 300-mu high-efficiency agricultural demonstration park in Mianzhu earthquake-stricken area of Sichuan, and he needs to fly once a month on average to give guidance. The technology of raising pigs in fermentation bed and planting fresh fruits such as strawberries has been successfully promoted there, and initial results have been achieved; He still wants to go abroad to exchange and study. The day before the author interviewed him, he was leading relevant people from jurong city to Japan to inspect the latest development trends of agricultural cooperative economic organizations and agricultural products circulation methods; He is still walking in the mountains and among farmers, and he still stays in the fields for more than 20 days every month. It is still his concern that the per capita income of farmers in Jurong Daizhuang will increase by 50% in three years. He is still concerned about the rural reform and the effective ways to increase farmers' income, because he has been worried about a dream, the dream of how China farmers can quickly rush to a well-off society.
As long as the dream never dies, his footsteps will not stop.